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The 10th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology


25-28 November, 2022, Online

Keynote Speakers


Speaker

Weisi Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


Title

3D Point Cloud Management, Processing & Applications


Abstract

Creation of digital twins for physical worlds has been enabled by increasingly economical availability of 3D point clouds (3D PCs), as a result of rapid development of Lidar, RGB-D sensing and structure-from-motion (SfM) technology. This offers unprecedented opportunities in digital transformation and smart cities. 3D PCs can scale from a single object (like a desk or statue) to an entire city, for VR/AR/MR, BIM (building-information model), urban surveillance and planning, cultural heritage preservation, crime investigation, navigation of robots, and autonomous driving. This talk will present the recent research and development in 3D PC saliency modelling, utility-oriented quality evaluation, various filtering and processing, point cloud simplification (e.g., or mobile devices), data compression, shape/mesh reconstruction, and image-based localization (both outdoor and indoor). More exciting possibilities are expected because 3D PCs provide bridges among computer vison, computer graphics and multimedia interaction.


Short Biography

Weisi Lin is an active research in image processing, perception-based signal modelling and assessment, video compression, and multimedia communication systems. He had been the Lab Head, Visual Processing, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R). He is a Professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he also serves as the Associate Chair (Research). He is a Fellow of IEEE and IET, and an Honorary Fellow of Singapore Institute of Engineering Technologists. He has been awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2019 by Web of Science, and elected as a Distinguished Lecturer in both IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2016-17) and Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (2012-13). He has been an Associate Editor for EEE Trans. Image Process., IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., IEEE Trans. Multimedia, IEEE Sig. Proc. Letters, Quality and User Experience, and J. Visual Commun. Image Represent. He has been a TP Chair for several international conferences. He believes that good theory is practical, and has delivered 10 major systems and modules for industrial deployment with the technology developed.